Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011
Multiculturalism is getting a bad rap these days. No fewer than three European leaders -- Angela Merkel of Germany, Nicolas...
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In November, 1979, Richard V. Allen, Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy advisor, commended a just-published magazine article to his boss...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011
In November 1979, Richard V. Allen, Ronald Reagan's foreign policy advisor, commended a just-published magazine article to his boss's at...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011
George W. Bush, who has freely admitted to sanctioning waterboarding and other interrogation techniques on terror suspects, has cancelled...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011
Last year, The Abaton, a Des Moines University literary and arts journals devoted to the healthcare professions, inaugurated...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Jan. 28, 2011
At a recent government hearing called to test Canada's rarely enforced anti-polygamy laws, "Witness number Four,"...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011
Have Canadians forgotten how to take care of themselves? What are the limits of the nanny state -- and how should we enf...
In 1970, some 97% of American males, and about 70% of Canadian males were circumcised. Those numbers have fallen dramatically, thanks in large part to ardent activism by anti-circumcision “r...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011
Woody Allen famously said, "The heart wants what it wants" -- a benign metaphor for the body part he really meant, residing lower in t...
I attended a public high school in Toronto whose population was virtually all Jewish. The scholastic achievements of the school vis a vis other Ontario high schools was so remarkable (by my rou...
'All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," said Ernest Hemingway, himself no slouch at aesthetic innovation.
The Adventures of Huckleberry...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010
My 2011 will begin with a bang. Literally. When we return from our annual Laurentian Yuletide holiday in e...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
I hope, after I have shuffled off this mortal coil, that none of my granddaughters will turn into useful i...
In teenhood, mere days after I got my licence, I was pulled over while driving. My law-abiding heart thumping furiously, I asked the officer why he had stopped me. He mildly informed me th...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010
The wind is howling. Snow is piling up faster than it can be shovelled away. The days are short. Civilizati...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
As proof that there is no subject on earth so trivial that it cannot be transmogrified into an entertaining co...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old Iranian woman sentenced to death in 2006, is still alive. The d...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010
In an op-ed published in Monday's National Post -- titled, Too Jewish then, too Asian now -- cultural cr...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Nov. 19, 2010
In the West, the idea of stoning a woman to death for adultery, or for any reason at all, evokes revulsion.
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He just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Judge Alfred Stong, I mean, who presided over the Elaine Campione murder trial. Two days ago the jury brought in a decision of first-d...